I read someone joke recently that they caught themselves pouring their coffee with the cup tilted, like you do when pouring a beer to avoid too much foamy head.   I, on the other hand, am fairly terrible at getting just the right foam on top, since it rarely matters with the swill I drink.  (Have [...]

So for some reason, I’ve been on a horrendously-sweet beer kick lately, to the detriment of my beloved malt liquors.  Well, I know perfectly well what that “some reason” is… I’ve exhausted all the crappy beer I can find at my local establishments.  I must be the only sap scanning the beer aisle, disappointed when [...]

Can you believe I haven’t had a true malt liquor in almost a year?  There’s a spring in my step, a better color to my face, I can see clearly now…  so it’s time to end *that*.  But first, let’s try a relatively high-end beer, the well-regarded “La Fin Du Monde” from Unibroue in Quebec.  [...]

As I was sipping some fun and different flavors at the recent Portland Fruit Beer Festival, it struck me suddenly that there was a particular entry that seemed to be glaringly absent. You see, Bridgeport recently released this years edition of Stumptown Tart. Yet despite the brewery being only a few miles away, and ST [...]

Funny enough, it turns out that drinking beer and writing well thought out blog posts don’t seem to go hand in hand. Looking back into my wobbly drunken photo archive, it turns out that I have quite a collection of brews I’ve never written anything about. Fortunately (or unfortunately depending on your perspective), now that [...]

Some fast facts about Biere De Mars: – This is a beer called “Beer From Mars”, and has a picture of Mars on the label. – Despite being from Mars, the name is in French. – Comes in a big fat bottle with a champagne-style cork. – Prominently mentions that its brewed with Brettanomyces Bruxellensis, [...]

Finally, a beer my wife likes!  Or anyone else on earth likes!  This is my first foray into fruity beers (unless you count Clamato), and I may just have to stop now to end on a high note, because this tasty little number hit the spot.  This beer was dee-lish, in the same foofy, guilty-pleasure [...]

The original marionberry Stumptown Tart set a new standard for fruit/beer integration. In addition to being wildly delicious, it was a great “ale” flavor that used the flavors of the marionberry without being too overboard. When the second ST came out, it was a Cherry Wheat. This time, the cherry played a more prominent role, [...]

Before I begin, an appeal: Brewers of the world, can you please, please, stop putting watermelon in beer. It just doesn’t belong. Like Jar Jar in a Star Wars movie (geez I’m a nerd), you are just going to go and ruin a good thing. I have now “officially” reviewed 3 watermelon beers, and they [...]

You’d think I’d learn after trying an import from Poland (“cool!”) that turned out to be their Malt Liquor (“dag nabbit!”) that trying odd Eastern European imports with labels in foreign languages is a wild gamble.  But if you’ve been reading my posts so far, you now know that I never learn.  Those brain cells [...]